Fan Chart (Paternal Ancestry) / Walker - Stewart Family Genealogy

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Ancestral Fan Chart compiled by Jean (Potter) Stewart and daughter Margaret Stewart Straus, Madison, Wisconsin, in 2003.

The goal of this project is to convert the marginal notes from the Walker - Stewart Fan Chart from hand-lettered material into text. My copy of the Fan Chart is inside the blue three-ring binder, Stewart-Walker Genealogy. Note: J. Stewart has two copies of this binder

This is a one-person project at this time (August 2019). Longer term, it might be worth finding out which, if any of the names mentioned are already in WT; linking them would add to the value. (Thinking out loud, I wonder if it would make more sense to re-order the notes by ordinal number of generation... For now, I want to enter them in all in the printed sequence; I will consider re-ordering them later. Also, now that the basic entry is complete, I wonder WHY I started at the bottom?) (Note: IMHO, seeing the full chart is relatively important to getting the full grasp of the genealogical connections.) I have also spelled out, or otherwise expanded, some abbreviations, where appropriate)

Transcription performed by: J. A. Stewart

Research Notes

(a) These marginal notes are not numbered, and most of the references, if any, are only to the 6th (for example) Generation. I have begun at the bottom left of the Chart and transcribed them.

1. 8th Generation -- Benjamin Pierce was a relative of Franklin Pierce, our 14th President. They shared great-great-grandparents, Steven Pierce and Tabitha Parker.

2. 5th Generation -- Samuel Stewart (Steuart) "left Scotland on the River Clyde" in 1802 (age 3) with his parents and brother Arthur (1788 - 1863) and perhaps other children. They settled in Ballieborough, Ireland. In 1842, Samuel came to America with his wife, Margaret. They landed in Southport, which is now Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, then went on to farm in Richmond, Wisconsin (on the west side of Highway 89).

3. 5th Generation -- Eliza Ann O'Neill was married previously to Hans Russell, was widowed (?) born 1824 - died 14 Oct 1862, Westfield, Wisconsin.

4. 6th Generation -- John Tompkins came from [the] north of England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1630. Ancestor of Arnold Bloomer Tompkins.

5. 8th Generation -- Samson Walker, Revolutionary War soldier

6. 6th Generation -- Jessie Warren Walker Jr., came down Erie Canal with rocking chair and bed. He was a pioneer settler in Black Earth, Dane County, Wisconsin.

7. 8th Generation -- Jonas Hazeltine was a Revolutionary War soldier. He was buried in the Meeting House Cemetery with his wife in Rockingham, Vermont.

8. 8th Generation -- [Included in error?]

9. 8th Generation -- Benjamin Pierce was an aide-de-camp to General Washington. (See Lovejoy Genealogy, page 69) "More below."

10. 9th Generation -- Eunice Gilson probably has Mayflower ancestors.

11. 9th Generation -- Captain Jonathan Burton ("continued above"), was in the 4th Company [need to expand this?]. Had nine children. Picture, and the Winter Hill Diary (near Boston -- Wimter 1775 - 76), and more information in History of Milton, [Strafford County,] New Hampshire (more above).

12.9th Generation -- Colonel Phillip Putnam (DAR #46700). Revolutionary War soldier. He was captain of a company mustered 26 Sep 1776 in New York and was at the Battle of White Plains, appointed a Colonel of Militia, (continued above).

13. 9th Generation -- Lieutenant William Pierce was a Revolutionary War soldier. Served in Captain Nathan Ballard's Company, at the time of the alarm in June, 1777, also expedition to Rhode Island, 1778.

14. 10th Generation -- Jacob Putnam had a saw mill and was a farmer. He lived in Wilton, Strafford County, New Hampshire, in 1739.

15. 13th Generation -- Captain Nathaniel Putnam is the link through John Putnam, his father, in the book, The Putnam Lineage, by Eben Putnam, 1907, The Salem Press Company, Salem, Massachusetts. More above.

16. 8th Generation -- Hannah Putnam's line is traced back to Charles Martel who ruled the Franks from 719 to 741 A. D. (His grandson was Charlemagne, King of France from 768 to 814 A. D.

17. Also see Americans of Royal Descent, by C. H. Browning, and History of Wilton, New Hampshire.

18. (Continued) -- Colonel Phillip Putnam [was?] one of the three largest taxpayers in Wilton {New Hampshire] for some years, and a Selectman for three years.

19. 9th Generation -- (Continued) Jonathan Burton. Captain and Major. In 1769(?) before he came to Wilton, New Hampshire. He served at Louisberg, Winterhill, and was Lieutenant in the Ticonderoga Campaign, 1775. Was a captain of the militia in New Hampshire. In 1786, was appointed Brigade Major by Governor Bartlett. A Justice of the Peace for fifteen years and a Selectman of Wilton for fiftenn years.

20. 13th Generation -- John Burton, freeman of Salem, Massachusetts, 1638. His farm joined that of Governor Endicott. According to the records of the court he ws one of the persecuted Quakers of his time. In 1658 he attempted to escape with others to Rhode Island that he might enjoy his opinions undisturbed. While on his way, he was arrested at Dedham, brought back, and put in the stocks for his very bold speech to the dignitaries of the court at Salem.

21. 14th Generation -- Boniface Burton, made a freeman in Lynn, Massachusetts. 1635, a farmer,and ancestor of nearly all the Burtons in this country. In Lewis' History of Lynn, Massachusetts, is more information.

22. In Weston, Vermont, there are living Walker relatives. The Walker homestead was built by Isaac Walker about 150 years ago in Andover, Vermont. The house is two or three miles north of Weston, Vermont. The house was in good condition when we (Warren, Jean, Marilyn, David, Douglas, and Carol Stewart) saw it in July, 1959. A Davis couple from Connecticut bought the house recently. A little north, almost directly across the street from the homestead is the Andover Cemetery. Jesse Walker, Senior, and Samson Walker and their wives are buried there; also many other Walkers.

23. Miles Standish is in the Walker line according to Janey Gehri Theobald (See information to the right).

24. 12th Generation -- Robert Hazeltine. Some of the early Hazeltines are buried on Copps Hill, in Boston, Massachusetts.

25. 13th Generation -- Thomas Putnam was the grandfather of General Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary War fame (fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill).

26. Putnam information, Generations 9 through 14 see: History of the Town of Wilton, New Hampshire; also Lyndeborough History, Boston Public Library, and New England Genealogical Society.

27. 10th Generation -- William Gutterson. His father married Abigail Buckmaster. Abigail's mother was Sarah Webb. William Shakespeare's grandparents were the same as our line!

28. 10th Generation -- Samuel Belden. His father was John Belden who married Lydia Standish on 24 April 1657. Lydia's father was Thomas Standish, possibly son of Miles Standish and Rose. Probably only related, not descended.